This video shows you a simple approach to weed control that can completely shift how you approach your garden because after all, us gardeners can get caught doing a lot of weeding! I hope you get a lot from this, and share the same excitement I have with this new approach for controlling weeds in the vegetable garden.
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Question: with the dandelions, do you chop the root as well as the leaves? Really interesting video, thanks Huw.
In my experience, chop and drop works great for annual weeds, provided they are chopped/dropped before they go to seed. More often, I feed my edible weeds to my chickens. Their poop gets composted and returned to the garden in short order.
For perennial, non-edible, and invasive weeds (such as creeping buttercup for my region), I dig it out and compost it. I hadn't thought about soaking it in a bucket.
Your production is so sophisticated it is better than many tv shows. Very visually interesting to pop around your garden as we learn.
My “lawn” is made up from grass, white clover, wild violets, wild strawberries and other weeds. When I mow, I bag the cuttings and distribute them in a thin layer to my garden and shrubs. They respond greatly. It is hot in my zone 7b and I never have to water or fertilize my “lawn” and the bunnies love it!
great video huw
Uprooting as such is what I picture for the word “weeding.”
But I know some people think of “weeding” as meaning “spraying” or other killing solutions.
How many days should I leave the dock in the water?
Wow. Inspirational.
When the USA was the NEW WORLD the native grasses grew tall & thrived in the summer (eastern mountain ranges). Becoming the only summer grazing for white tailed deer. The grasses died back in the winter. They grew tall & in clumps so that small critters can zig zag run thu it evading the fox. Etc. summer growth & tall means they brought up nutrients from deep down. You guys brought over your cool season grass, growing very shallow & in spring & fall when only needed by you cows. USA should grow our summer grasses to JADAM fertilizer our veg gardens
Why not put the weeds in the compost? It may not be instant, but if the weeds are composted, and the compost is applied regularly, the nutrients will cycle back in the end.
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Soils are actually created by the WEEDS!
I have always thought as weeds only good helping towards my beautiful free compost same as you nettles for feed
i d like some ideas about ,greeen house gardening.It is something like studing and learning about proceses i n a nature.Wild or domestic.Keep on ,but slowly.Pozdrav.Step by step.
I've always said that a weed is just a misunderstood wild plant. Sometimes to the point of slander. Just because we haven't domesticated it doesn't mean it has nothing to offer us. Thumbs up!
I love chop and drop. For the weeds in my yard, I don't even pull them, I just cut them down to ground level with the week whacker. The roots nourish the soil life and the rest becomes mulch. I'm in the low desert with a yard of bare silty dirt so this works well to nourish the ground until I move back up north, hopefully soon! Hew, you always knock it out of the park with your creative approaches!! When I get up north, all my weeds will go into liquid fertilizer! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, great way to look at maintaining the garden.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience
Should the seeds/heads be removed first so they are not sown back into the soil? I would love to hear you say "not necessary".
What about putting the weeds into my compost bin? I've been avoiding the tops where any seeds could be. Is this necessary?
Thank you. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely. As a child, I somehow knew this. I've enjoyed seeing my instinct confirmed throughout life. I somehow knew I wasn't just crazy or childish lol!
I'm all up for that, though what's your take on slugs, particularly little black ones? A gardner suggested there might too much vegetation around…Thanks.
I've recently had the instinctive understanding that the best fertilizer for a particular plant (and tree) is it's own leaves and flowers…perhaps why in the wild things proliferate with abundance without any intervention^^ So rhubarb leaves under the rhubarb yesterday (keeps moisture in and helps stop weeds too!)
Great ideas, thank you. One point I’m not clear on – can you mix different weeds together eg. comfrey and thistle- to make an all purpose feed or do you have to make and apply them separately?
Thanks
composting toilet fixes the nutrient deficit thing